Units / Wyoming / Deer area 118
Deer hunt area — its own geography, not the elk area with the same number. Public land, access, and deer harvest below are computed for this boundary.
Public land
63%
82,619 ac of 131,234 ac
Landlocked public
2,568 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
7%
of public · 5,535 ac
Walk-in access
64,592 ac
private land opened to hunting
mule deer · 2025
52.4% success
11 taken by 21 hunters · 107 days afield
11 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns
Res 56% · NR 40% success
mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 61% → 52%
Plan it
Wyoming deer draw odds — 2 hunts here →
14 tags drawn on this deer area last season.
Same number, different ground: Elk area 118 →
OpenHunt for Android is on Google Play — offline packs, GPS tracks, same account. Send it to your phone →
Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s
Where the ground sits
Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band
Slope mix
Which way the slopes face
Share of ground steeper than 5° — flat ground has no facing
North slopes hold shade, cover and snow; south slopes open first.
USGS 3DEP 1 arc-second (30 m), slope at native resolution in a local metric projection, sampled on a 200 m grid. See the code →
Nearby deer deer areas
Boundaries from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department deer hunt-area layer; ownership from USGS PAD-US; access from the state walk-in program; roads from OSM + MVUM. Same open formulas as every unit page — the methodology is published and the code is open.